New York Daily News
NEW YORK — A quarter century later, the pain will never heal felt by the widows of three firefighters killed in a Queens hardware store explosion in what will forever be known as the “Father’s Day Fire .”
But over the decades since that horrible day, Anne Downing, Denise Ford and Mary Fahey found something to ease their sorrow — a salve that has helped them face the two dozen Father’s Days since then. They found each other and forged an unexpected sisterhood…